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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Lea's profession?
(a) Courtesan.
(b) Artist.
(c) Waitress.
(d) Model.

2. What is the setting of the beginning of CHERI?
(a) A salon.
(b) The Louvre.
(c) Lea's bedroom.
(d) A restaurant.

3. What does Cheri buy for his wife and mother before returning home?
(a) Theatre tickets.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Fur coats.
(d) Jewelry.

4. In what year does CHERI begin?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1913.

5. Who does Lea hire to help Cheri during another summer?
(a) Partick.
(b) Peter.
(c) Patron.
(d) Paulo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Cheri NOT say to Edmee when he tries to assure her that he loves her?

2. Lea reminisces about a summer she spent with Cheri in ______________.

3. What makes Cheri suddenly leave the Pal's apartment?

4. Who does Cheri encounter at the restaurant?

5. Whose apartment do Cheri and Desmond visit?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Cheri and Lea introduced to the reader in CHERI?

2. What is Cheri's reaction when he sees Edmee wearing a pearl necklace?

3. Why are Cheri and Edmee at odds over the state of their marriage?

4. What plan does Lea come up with in order to help rid her memory of Cheri?

5. Describe some of the interpersonal dynamics in Madame Peloux's house while Cheri and Edmee live there.

6. Who is the Pal and how does Cheri meet her?

7. What is the significance of pearls to Cheri?

8. How does the relationship between Lea and Cheri begin?

9. How does Edmee temper her feelings during the time she and Cheri live at Madame Peloux's?

10. What could be another reason that Lea is so repulsed by Lili and her young companion?

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